April 19, 2019

Porky's II: The Next Day 1983

Bob Clark directed Porky's II: The Next Day and it came out in 1983. He co-wrote the script with Roger Swaybill and Alan Ormsby. It was the last script for Roger, he only wrote two movies and a TV show before this. He wrote Breaking Point for Bob Clark to direct in 1976 and a he wrote the script to Lathe Of Heaven with Diane English in 1980. Alan worked with Bob Clark on his first movie, Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things in 1972. He wrote a few other interesting items, Deranged, My Bodyguard, The Substitute franchise and 4 episodes of Nash Bridges.

The movie starts off at the end of the first movie but doesn't continue with Porky in the story line. Don't worry, he'll return in the 3rd movie. I heard second hand that he didn't want to get his cock out so he isn't in the movie. There are some penis's in the film, so beware.

The main theme is religious persecution, persecution by religious creeps, not the other way around. There's some racist haters in there too. The school wants a Shakespeare festival, reverend asshole wants to put a stop to the Elizabethan filth and the racists are up in arms about the Native American guy playing Romeo. The racists are all part of the KKK subplot and all those pricks are going to get some punishment by the end of the movie. That's all good.

The movie is fun but not as much fun as the first. The script was written quickly and Bob was working on A Christmas Story at the same time. In fact, the IMDb says the studio wanted PII:TND and didn't much care about ACS. Little did they know what a hit ACS would be. I picked up the Blu-ray two pack of PII:TND and Porky's Revenge. I didn't have either so now I have the trilogy.